Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 09:16:37 -0500 From: Richard J Kuhns <rjk@wintek.com> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: NAT and traffic shaping Message-ID: <407AA4C5.50405@wintek.com>
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We have a customer (an apartment complex) who wants us to deploy a FreeBSD box that will handle NAT for 400 to 600 machines (so figure multiple connections per machine) and that can handle a steady 12 to 15 Mb of ethernet traffic, both directions. I'm sure we'll also want to do some traffic shaping. Would anyone care to offer suggestions/recommendations/horror stories about implementing this? Specifically, how hefty a box should we use (RAM/CPU), and which version of FreeBSD? We're mostly running 4.9-stable right now and it's been very reliable. I've installed 5.2.1 on a couple of boxes with no major problems, but they also haven't been heavily loaded. Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. - Rich -- Richard Kuhns Wintek Corporation E-mail: rjk@wintek.com 427 N 6th Street Tel: +1 (765) 742-8428 Lafayette, IN 47901-1126 Fax: +1 (765) 742-0646 United States of America
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